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Idiot brain : what your head is really up to
- Title
- Idiot brain : what your head is really up to / Dean Burnett.
- Author
- Burnett, Dean
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
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- Description
- 328 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett,"--NoveList.
- We cling to superstitions and miss things sitting right in front of us-- but that's actually just a sign of a well-meaning brain doing its best to keep you alive and healthy. Burnett takes the reader on a delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter, and helps you understand how our brains actually work.
- Subjects
- Brain
- Memory
- Popular works
- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Hirnforschung
- Brain > Popular works
- Memory > Popular works
- PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Gehirn
- Neurosciences > Popular works
- Brain > physiology
- SCIENCE / Cognitive Science
- Consciousness > Popular works
- Neurowissenschaften
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Mind controls: how the brain regulates the body, and usually makes a mess of things -- The gift of memory (keep the receipt): the human memory system, and its strange features -- Fear: nothing to be scared of: the many ways in which the brain makes us constantly afraid -- Think you're clever, do you?: the baffling and complex science of intelligence -- Did you see this chapter coming?: the haphazard properties of the brain's observational systems -- Personality: a testing concept: the complex and confusing properties of personality -- Group hug!: how the brain is influenced by other people -- When the brain breaks down... mental health problems, and how they come about -- Afterword.
- ISBN
- 9780393253788
- 0393253783
- LCCN
- 2016009451
- 99971882057
- OCLC
- ocn921868676
- 921868676
- SCSB-5887237
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries